Road accidents

Some 18 injured in eight-car pileup on Highway 6 in central Israel, halting traffic

Approximately 18 people were injured in the crash, of whom 10 were transported to the Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera. 

Israel Police officers respond to a car crash on Highway 6, September 29, 2026.
The empty streets in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays. Israel came to a standstill for 25-hours during the high holiday of Yom Kippur when observant Jews fast and Israelis are prohibited from driving, October 2, 2025.

Over 250 people injured in Yom Kippur road accidents in 2025, road safety group warns

Hundreds of motorcyclists seen driving in traffic in Hanoi, Vietnam. October 02, 2013.

French-Israeli killed in Vietnam motorcycle accident, ZAKA working to retrieve remains for burial

Emergency personnel at the scene of a road accident in which a vehicle overturned near the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem, September 4, 2026.

Deadly weekend on Israeli roads: At least two killed, six injured in crashes nationwide


Traffic-related fatalities on rise for second year in a row

Over the last 12 months alone, 345 people – including 129 pedestrians – have died in car accidents on Israeli roads.

Aerial picture of chain accident at Lehavim Junction in Negev

Grandmother of seven hit by bus; brain dead, her kidneys and liver taken for transplant

Deceased's wish to donate organs fulfilled by family; survived by seven grandchildren, with two more on the way.

Grandmother killed in Bus accident, donates organs

Drunk driver kills father and daughter in head-on crash near Arad

In a second fatal traffic incident over the weekend, a pedestrian in his 20s was killed in Beit Shemesh, Rosenfeld said. An investigation of this event is also taking place, he added.

The scene of a traffic accident on Road 31 near Arad

Painted street dividers get failing grade

The lines are safety measures aimed at discouraging drivers from maneuvering their vehicles like go-carts in an amusement park.

The dividing lines on Pat Street are not visible.

Analysis: Despite rhetoric, Hamas is surprised by damage it is sustaining

The current conflict has barely given Hamas any “achievements,” and it is desperately trying to increase its attacks.

Hamas

The POSTman Knocks Twice: Of tears and laughter, cabbages and kings

Warning: If you believe in the divine right of kings, are a British Empire Loyalist, or an American in love with royalty – read further at your own peril.

Queen Elizabeth II (521)

Or Yarok: Children most prone to traffic injuries in Jerusalem

With 214 children injured in 2013, the number of children facing roadside harm last year was three times higher in Jerusalem than in Tel Aviv.

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Road Safety Authority: Critical to set regulations for use of electric bicycles

Regulations for electric bikes expired in 2011 and were not renewed, even as their popularity soared in Israel.

An electric bicycle.

Two killed in road accident on Highway 4

The two victims - a woman with car trouble and a taxi driver who stopped to help - were standing on the side of the road when they were hit by a passing car.

ZAKA volunteers at the scene of the crash, May 9, 2014.

One dead, 7 injured in collision north of Jericho

A man in his 50s and another passenger, in his 30s, were trapped in their overturned car following a head-on collision with a Palestinian vehicle.

The overturned car involved in the head-on collision on Highway 90.